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The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Australian
Forever beginning
The Australian
The story unfolds in the here and now, unlike That Deadman Dance, set in early-19th-century Western Australia, or one of its predecessors, Benang, which focuses on the decades of forced removal of indigenous children, the people we now know as the ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
ROLAND Carter set off from his lands around South Australia's Lake Alexandrina to fight the Germans in WWI, the first Ngarrindjeri man to enlist. He could never have expected the remarkable journey to come, or that he would find among the enemy a man ...

The Advertiser
The epic tale of a WWI Indigenous Anzac and his captor
The Advertiser
An estimated 1500 Aborigines served on the Western Front in the Australian Imperial Force in WWI, but Roland turned out to be of special interest to the Germans. Some of his story has been told by the SA Museum in an exhibition Aboriginal Anzacs: From ...

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ABC Online
Waterloo Bay 'massacre' debate rages as Aboriginal community looks for 'closure'
ABC Online
For the past 170 years, an Aboriginal community in regional South Australia has been handing down the story of the "Waterloo Bay massacre". "Our history is an oral history, it's not written down," Wirangu elder Jack Johncock said. "In 1849, people were ...

National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

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National Geographic Australia
Aboriginal Artefacts sold Illegally in Hobart
National Geographic Australia
A member of Tasmania's Indigenous community reported the illegal trade after the artefacts were being offered for sale on the internet. Luke Bond, Chief enforcement officer from the Natural and Cultural Heritage Division found 38 potential indigenous ...

and more »

Huffington Post Australia
Man Found Not Guilty Of Manslaughter Of WA Aboriginal Teenager
Huffington Post Australia
On Friday, the Western Australian Supreme Court in Perth found the accused not guilty of the manslaughter charge, but guilty of dangerous driving occasioning death following a four-day trial and more than six hours of jury deliberation. The verdict ...
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughterSBS
Three years' jail for Elijah's lifeThe Australian
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
The Guardian -Perth Now -Daily Mail
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SBS
Three years' jail for Elijah's life
The Australian
Elijah's death last August came as racial tensions were ratcheting up in his hometown in the West Australian goldfields, the twin cities of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. News that a non-Aboriginal man had run over an Aboriginal boy triggered a protest in the ...
Elijah Doughty verdict: Is Kalgoorlie facing more unrest after driver acquitted of manslaughter?Perth Now
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughterSBS
The Guardian -Daily Mail -BuzzFeed News
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The Guardian (blog)
Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn't accept symbolic recognition
The Guardian (blog)
I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of ...
Let's give indigenous people a voice in parliamentThe Australian
Ken Wyatt disappointed over Council decisionSky News Australia

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The Guardian (blog)
Politicians must face the truth: Indigenous Australia doesn't accept symbolic recognition
The Guardian (blog)
I announce that if I am re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in our constitution, their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of ...
PM puts 'cart before horse' on recognition modelThe Australian
Ken Wyatt disappointed over Council decisionSky News Australia

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SBS
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughter
SBS
A man who ran over and killed a 14-year-old boy while he rode a stolen motorcycle in Western Australia's Goldfields region has been acquitted of manslaughter, but convicted of the lesser charge of dangerous driving causing death. The man, who cannot be ...
Three years' jail for Elijah's lifeThe Australian
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
Elijah Doughty verdict: Is Kalgoorlie facing more unrest after driver acquitted of manslaughter?Perth Now
The Guardian -Daily Mail -BuzzFeed News
all 25 news articles »

SBS
Driver not guilty of Indigenous teen Elijah Doughty's manslaughter
SBS
A man who ran over and killed a 14-year-old boy while he rode a stolen motorcycle in Western Australia's Goldfields region has been acquitted of manslaughter, but convicted of the lesser charge of dangerous driving causing death. The man, who cannot be ...
Elijah Doughty trial: Man jailed for three years over death of Kalgoorlie teenagerABC Online
Elijah Doughty: man who ran over Indigenous teenager jailed for three yearsThe Guardian
Elijah Doughty verdict: Is Kalgoorlie facing more unrest after driver acquitted of manslaughter?Perth Now
Junkee -Daily Mail
all 25 news articles »

CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
New workshop explores Indigenous culture and music
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
Rock your event with the culture of Indigenous Australia. The new workshop offers groups a special insight into the culture and music of Indigenous Australia, and is available for meetings, incentives and special events being held anywhere in Australia.

CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
New workshop explores Indigenous culture and music
CIM Newsmagazine (press release) (blog)
Rock your event with the culture of Indigenous Australia. The new workshop offers groups a special insight into the culture and music of Indigenous Australia, and is available for meetings, incentives and special events being held anywhere in Australia.

InDaily
Earliest Australians enjoyed a coastal lifestyle
InDaily
The latest study reveals that at lower sea levels, this island was used as a hunting shelter between about 50,000 and 30,000 years ago, and then as a residential base for family groups by 8,000 years ago. As the dates for the first Aboriginal arrival ...

Crikey (registration) (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 6 - the 1972 Larrakia Petition
Crikey (registration) (blog)
In 2011 the National Archives of Australia described 'the Larrakia Petition' as 'one of the most important documents in the history of Indigenous Australian's struggle for land rights' (NAA 2011c; Reconciliation Australia 2011b:9). Four years earlier ...

Crikey (registration) (blog)
Essential documents from Aboriginal Australia: 6 - the 1972 Larrakia Petition
Crikey (registration) (blog)
In 2011 the National Archives of Australia described 'the Larrakia Petition' as 'one of the most important documents in the history of Indigenous Australian's struggle for land rights' (NAA 2011c; Reconciliation Australia 2011b:9). Four years earlier ...

The Guardian
Rugby union has an image problem in Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
It was wonderful to see Kurtley Beale dancing at the unveiling of the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey in Redfern on Monday. Beale's impromptu expression of pride in his Aboriginality was certainly an uplifting moment in an otherwise bleak year for ...

The Guardian
Rugby union has an image problem in Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
It was wonderful to see Kurtley Beale dancing at the unveiling of the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey in Redfern on Monday. Beale's impromptu expression of pride in his Aboriginality was certainly an uplifting moment in an otherwise bleak year for ...